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JOURNEY BY STAGES

by Stella Margetson

Published by Cassell & Company Ltd. 1st. 1967

Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Some Account of the People who Travelled by Stage-Coach and Mail in the Years Between 1660 and 1840. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations and a few colour.

A few minor, faint marks to boards. Tea (?) stain to vertical edge of endpapers and text block but does not affect contetns. Text block browned. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-rubbed, browned and scuffed, faded to spine.

Stock no. 1828468

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Contents

  • 1 Early Travellers
  • 2 Performed - if God Permit
  • 3 Inns Along the Road
  • 4 Turnpikes and Traffic
  • 5 Outsiders
  • 6 Faster Travel
  • 7 Travelling in Scotland
  • 8 The Mail-Coach Revolution
  • 9 The Glory of Motion
  • 10 Travelling for Pleasure
  • 11 Coleridge, Keats and Mary Wordsworth
  • 12 The Golden Age
  • 13 On the Brighton Road
  • 14 Foreign Travellers in Britain
  • 15 Into the Railway Age
  • 16 Journey's End
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index

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